Galata
Galata ( Karaköy today ) is a district (or more precisely a part of the district of Beyoğlu ) on the European side of Istanbul.
The name has, like, for example, Gaul or Iberian Galicia, on the early settlement by Celts ( Gauls ) back. Sensational building as the built in place of the same historical Galata Bridge Galata Tower or keep this name as well as the elite Galatasaray High School and the Galatasaray Spor Kulübü sports club (football, basketball, water polo, volleyball, etc).
Only 400 meters from Byzantium was Galata on the north side of the Golden Horn at the port of Constantinople Opel, at the intersection of three waters: Bosporus, Sea of Marmara ( Propontis ) and the Golden Horn.
Konstantin Opel, now called historical peninsula of Istanbul, was the Orthodox or Islamic imperial capital of the Eastern Roman or the Ottoman Empire, however, the Genoese Galata - Italian Catholic trading town with its own city walls.
Galata is the largest Italian trade colony outside of the Latin culture. The richest Genoese merchants and bankers, who carried on with the Orient trade, lived here.
Galata was a separate city on the northern shore of the Golden Horn in the Byzantine period. With the part Pera ( Beyoğlu ) formed the Galata other European side to nevertheless European historical Konstantin Opel whose temporarily strong Jewish embossing can be seen at synagogues are still working today as the Neve Shalom or the High Rabbinate.
After the First World War Galata was expanded by the victorious powers, Britain and France to an alternative capital.
The Grande Rue de Pera ( Istiklal Caddesi ) and the area ( Beyoglu / Cihangir / Tophane ) have to be one of the world's largest houses collections of Art Nouveau. The owners of these houses are listed buildings were mostly French or Italian bankers and Ottoman Greeks.
Sons and daughters of the town
- André Chénier, French writer, was born "in the Han of St. Pierre at the Ottoman Bank " ( Friedrich Schrader Konstantin Opel past and present Mohr / Siebeck, Tübingen 1919, p x. . )